Smoking Gun: Iran Surrenders Blueprints For Nuclear Warheads
Alright, here’s the deal on this. Iran says they only want nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, and have never event thought about using it to make nuclear weapons. So why then have they drawn up blueprints for nuclear warheads. They claim they didn’t create the blueprints, but that the blueprints were “accidentally” given to them by a third party. This called CYA on the smoking gun in your hands.
AP:
After years of stonewalling, Iran has given the UN nuclear agency blueprints showing how to mold uranium metal into the shape of warheads, diplomats said Tuesday, in an apparent concession meant to head off the threat of new UN sanctions.
But the diplomats said Tehran has failed to meet other requests made by the International Atomic Energy Agency in its attempts to end nearly two decades of nuclear secrecy on the part of the Islamic Republic.
The diplomats spoke to The Associated Press as IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei put the finishing touches on his latest report to his agency’s 35-nation board of governors, for consideration next week. While ElBaradei is expected to say that Iran has improved its cooperation with his agency’s probe, the findings are unlikely to deter the United States, France and Britain from pushing for a third set of UN sanctions.
The agency has been seeking possession of the blueprints since 2005, when it stumbled upon them among a batch of other documents during its examination of suspect Iranian nuclear activities. While agency inspectors had been allowed to examine them in the country, Tehran had up to now refused to let the IAEA have a copy for closer perusal.
Diplomats accredited to the agency, who demanded anonymity for divulging confidential information, said the drawings were hand-carried by Mohammad Saeedi, deputy director of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization and handed over last week in Vienna to Oli Heinonen, an ElBaradei deputy in charge of the Iran investigations.
Iran maintains it was given the papers without asking for them during its black market purchases of nuclear equipment decades ago that now serve as the backbone of its program to enrich uranium - a process that can generate power or create the fissile core of nuclear warheads. Iran’s refusal to suspend enrichment has been the main trigger for both existing UN sanctions and the threat of new ones.
Both the IAEA and other experts have categorized the instructions outlined in the blueprints as having no value outside of a nuclear weapons program.
While ElBaradei’s report is likely to mention the Iranian concession on the drawings and other progress made in clearing up ambiguities in Iran’s nuclear activities, it was unclear whether it would also detail examples of what the diplomats said was continued Iranian stonewalling.
Senior IAEA officials were refused interviews with at least two top Iranian nuclear officials suspected of possible involvement in a weapons program, they said. One was the leader of a physics laboratory at Lavizan, outside Tehran, which was razed before the agency had a chance to investigate activities there. The other was in charge of developing Iran’s centrifuges, used to enrich uranium.
(AP)
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“…Iran has given the UN nuclear agency blueprints showing how to mold uranium metal into the shape of warheads…”
Yeagh. After they scanned/backed-up the documents on a computer.
When are we gonna learn….
November 13th, 2007 at 11:54 amTick, tick, tick, tick …. does anyone else hear something? Oh, never mind, it is just time running out.
November 13th, 2007 at 12:09 pmCPLViper, you got that right..the clock is starting to tick faster and faster by the day. this is getting ridiculous, and we are working on new sanctions. ha
November 13th, 2007 at 12:56 pmWhy am i not surprised? A few well placed tomahawk’s are surely in order now.
November 13th, 2007 at 1:01 pmAnd what other proof is now needed?…a damn mushroom cloud?…Times up
November 13th, 2007 at 1:19 pmThis is the time where we should issue the deadline: cease and desist or face annihilation.
November 13th, 2007 at 2:08 pmStreetDoctor,
Good idea but we will need something a little more capable of deeper penetration than Tomahawks. If Iran has released the blueprints then they really no longer need them.
November 13th, 2007 at 2:25 pmIran wouldn’t have multiple target capabilities for Dearborn, Frisco and the home of the Cape Cod orca would they ? Technology given to the China boy’s by the clinton-ista’s for under the table political $$. The China boy’s then traded to Iran for oil.——Nawwww–they wouldn’t do that——
November 13th, 2007 at 3:33 pmlocknload ,
There is a well documented relationship with Venezuela, North Korea, and Iran. In fact, North Korea and Iran share a missile program. Russia and China are at the center of this farce and have been for decades.
November 13th, 2007 at 7:29 pmI also flew a couple of F-16 sorties into Iran using Google Earth just for fun. Control-Alt-A get’s you in.
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